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St David's Anglican Church, Mossman
St David's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church (building), church at 3 Foxton Avenue, Mossman, Queensland, Mossman, Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Edward Taffs and Edwin Roy Orchard. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 August 2010. History St David's Church is a small stone and masonry building constructed in three stages between 1912 and 1952 to encompass a porch, nave and Apse, apsidal sanctuary, with a vestry and chapel added . It replaced an earlier Anglican church on the same site, which was destroyed by a cyclone in March 1911. The original design, as influenced by the architectural traditions of the Byzantine Empire, was completed by the long-serving rector, Reverend Edward Taffs, who drove the project to fruition over the course of his career in charge of the Mossman/Port Douglas, Queensland, Port Douglas Parish of the Anglican Diocese of Carpentaria (1900–1996). The current church and its evocative setting behin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mossman, Queensland
Mossman is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre for the Douglas Shire Council In the , the locality of Mossman had a population of 1,935 people. Geography Mossman in Far North Queensland on the Mossman River. Mossman is located on the Captain Cook Highway north of the regional city of Cairns, and east of the Mount Carbine Tableland. The Mossman River flows through the locality from west ( Finlayvale / Mossman Gorge) to east ( Newell / Bonnie Doon). Mossman Gorge, a popular attraction within Daintree National Park and the broader Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage area is located west of town. Sugar cane farming is an important aspect of the local economy, with Mossman Central Mill, the only sugar mill in the district (), processing the cane before sending it to Cairns for shipping domestically and internationally. There is a network of cane tramways through Mossman and nearby sugarcane g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mossman River
The Mossman River is a river in lower Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Geography The headwaters of the river rise under Devils Thumb on the Mount Carbine Tableland in the Great Dividing Range. The river flows through a deeply incised valley in the Mount Lewis Forest Reserve in an easterly direction and then through the Mossman Gorge, part of the Daintree National Park, and onto the coastal plain past the township of Mossman, where the river is crossed by the Captain Cook Highway. The river eventually discharges into Trinity Bay and the Coral Sea between Newell and Cooya Beach. The river descends over its course. The river has a catchment area of of which an area of is composed of estuarine wetlands. History The traditional language area of Kuka-Dyangan (also known as Djangun, Gugu Djangun and Kuka Djangun) includes landscape within the local government boundaries of the Douglas Shire and Cook Shire. '' Yalanji'' (also known as ''Kuku Yalanji'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Diocese Of North Queensland
The Diocese of North Queensland is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia, founded in 1879. It is situated in the northern part of the state of Queensland, Australia. As part of the Province of Queensland, it covers the Torres Strait Islands in the north, the entire Cape York Peninsula and the cities of Mount Isa, Cairns, Townsville and Mackay, Queensland, Mackay. The diocesan cathedral is St James' Cathedral, Townsville. The Anglican Bishop of North Queensland, Bishop of North Queensland is Keith Ronald Joseph, who was consecrated and installed on 31 March 2019. Structure There are 54 parishes in the diocese, supported by 120 licensed clergy as of February 2015. The diocese owns and operates St Mark's College, a residential college for men and women at James Cook University, Townsville. The diocese extends its pastoral care through the following ministries: * Anglicare North Queensland * The Good Shepherd Nursing Home, Townsville (co-trustee) * The Good Shepherd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mossman Central Co-operative Mill
Mossman may refer to: Places * Mossman, Queensland, Australia ** Mossman Central Mill * Mossman Gorge, Queensland * Mossman River, Queensland * Mossman Inlet, Antarctica * Mossman Peninsula, Antarctica People * Mossman (surname) Other uses * Mossman Collection The Mossman Carriage Collection is a museum housing a collection of horse-drawn vehicles in Stockwood Park, Luton, Bedfordshire. It is the largest collection of such vehicles in the United Kingdom, and includes original vehicles dating from t ..., a collection of horse-drawn vehicles in the UK * '' Mossman v. Higginson'', an 1800 United States Supreme Court decision See also * Mosman (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hodgkinson (politician)
William Oswald Hodgkinson (1835–1900) was an Australian explorer, journalist, gold miner, and politician. Biography William Oswald Hodgkinson was born on 31 March 1835 in Handsworth, Warwick, England. His father, also named William Oswald Hodgkinson, was a civil engineer and his mother was Harriet Hodgkinson, née Brown. Hodgkinson was educated at Birmingham Grammar School and by 1851 was a midshipman in the merchant marine. He soon emigrated to Australia, working for the government in Victoria on the Tarnagulla and Forest Creek goldfields. After a short-lived return to England he went to work as a journalist in Australia, starting in 1859, and in 1860 joined the Burke and Wills expedition. Hodgkinson left the expedition before it ended in disaster at Cooper Creek, and went on to join first Alfred William Howitt’s Victorian Relief Expedition, which aimed to establish the fate of the Burke and Wills expedition, and then in 1861 the John McKinlay relief party, on which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brie Brie Sugar Plantation
Brie ( ; ) is a soft cow's-milk cheese named after Brie (itself from Gaulish ''briga'', "hill, height"), the French region from which it originated (roughly corresponding to the modern of Seine-et-Marne). It is pale in colour with a slight greyish tinge under a rind of white mould. The rind is typically eaten, with its flavour depending largely upon the ingredients used and its manufacturing environment. It is similar to Camembert, which is native to a different region of France. Brie typically contains between 60% and 75% butterfat, slightly higher than Camembert. "Brie" is a style of cheese, and is not in itself a protected name, although some regional bries are protected. Some of the flavour notes that are commonly found when eating Brie are: creamy, nutty, mushroom-like, and slightly-acidic. Production Brie may be produced from whole or semi-skimmed milk. The curd is obtained by adding rennet to raw milk and warming it to a maximum temperature of . The cheese is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory). With million people, Jamaica is the third most populous English-speaking world, Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. The indigenous Taíno peoples of the island gradually came under Spanish Empire, Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hodgkinson Goldfield
The Hodgkinson Mineral Area was a mining area near the Hodgkinson River about west of Cairns, in the present-day Shire of Mareeba in Queensland, Australia. It was the site of a gold rush in the 1870s. History Prospector James Venture Mulligan discovered gold in the Hodgkinson River area in 1876. Mines were established and many towns developed: * Beaconsfield () * Glen Mowbray * Kingsborough * Merton * Northcote * Tinaroo * Great Western * Hodgkinson * Woodville * Wellesley * Union Town * New Northcote * Mount Mulligan * Montmunro * MacLeodsville * Littleton * Kingston * Stewartown * Thornborough * Tyrconnel * Watsonsville (not to be confused with Watsonville near Herberton) Many miners relocated from the Palmer River goldfields to the Hodgkinson field. As the Hodgkinson field was too far from the port at Cooktown, a new port was established at Cairns. However, it was a very steep trip up through the Barron Gorge to reach Cairns and so explorer Christy Palmerston success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daintree River
The Daintree River is a river that rises in the Daintree Rainforest near Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland, Australia. The river is located about northwest of Cairns in the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Wet Tropics of Queensland. The area is now primarily a tourist attraction. Course and features The river rises on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range within the Daintree National Park below Kalkajaka at an elevation of . The river flows in highly meandering course generally north, then east, then south and then east, through the rainforest where the water is fresh. At this convergence point, an abundance of wildlife congregate, particularly fish. The river is joined by two minor tributaries before flowing through the Cairns Marine Park through thick mangrove swamps where the water is highly saline; and then empties into the Coral Sea, north of . The mouth of the Daintree River opens onto a giant sandbar that shifts with each changing tide. The river descends over its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell River (Queensland)
The Russell River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia. The -long river flows towards the Coral Sea and is located approximately south of . Location and features The Russell River rises in the Wooroonooran National Park sourced from drainage of the Bellenden Ker Range, below Mount Bartle Frere and Mount Bellenden Ker. In its upper reaches, the watercourse, course of the river meanders highly as it flows south by east and exits the Wooroonooran National Park. The river flows north by east, joined by the Josephine Creek and it has descended over the Josephine Falls. The river flows east of and then due north, bounded on both its east and western flanks by the Russell River National Park. The river reaches its confluence with the Mulgrave River in an estuary, estuarine state, with the Mulgrave flowing east for a short distance to empty into Coral Sea via the Mutchero Inlet. Water from the river is used to grow sugar cane on the coastal plains surrounding the Russell R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulgrave River
The Mulgrave River, incorporating the East Mulgrave River and the West Mulgrave River, is a river system in Far North Queensland, Australia. The -long river flows towards the Coral Sea and is located approximately south of . Location and features Sourced by runoff from the Bellenden Ker Range, the headwaters of the Mulgrave River rise as the east and west branches of the river below South Peak and west of , respectively. The two branches form their confluence within the Wooroonooran National Park and the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The Mulgrave River flows generally north towards Little Mulgrave, Queensland, Little Mulgrave, through the outskirts of , and continues through the Goldsborough Valley. From Gordonvale, the river flows east by south and then south, eventually emptying into the Coral Sea south at the southern extremity of the Yarrabah Hills range, where it meets the Russell River (Queensland), Russell River. The Trinity Inlet was once the river mouth of the Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnstone River
The Johnstone River, comprising the North Johnstone River and the South Johnstone River, is a river system in Far North and North Queensland, Australia. The headwaters of the river system rise in the Atherton Tablelands. The north branch of the river system rises below Merivale, flows over the Malanda Falls and through the town of and then flows generally south by east, around Francis Range and over the Jones Falls, before flowing east, covering a distance of . The south branch of the river system rises below Mount Father Clancy, southwest of Mungalli, and generally flows east over Binda Falls, through the settlement of , before flowing north, covering a distance of . The two rivers reach their confluence to form the Johnstone River east of the town of , and just west of the river mouth. The main river then flows east, north of the Moresby Range National Park, and empties into the Coral Sea. Together, the combined rivers flow over from source to mouth and descend app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
